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snoyes 14:41, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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Talk:Atheism/Godvrs.god poll please come participate Sam Spade 03:49, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Catholic acceptance of evolution
I see you've added this to the main evolution article; can you do the same to evolutionary creationism? Maybe it only needs a smaller mention in the evolution article, hmmm... Dunc_Harris|☺ 14:37, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"Johnstone (Add: This article is about God (with a capitalized "G"). For the generic usage, see gods.)"
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This strikes me as a POV hijacking of a definition. If you wish to have a separate "Christian God" or a "Monotheistic God", that'd be one thing, but unilaterally deciding that the page should only address one particular aspect of the definition smacks of agenda-pushing.
Since I'm sure that your intent was not to push a personal agenda, but to improve the objectively neutral Wikipedia, rather than revert, I invite you (Johnstone) to correct this yourself; please do so as soon as you reasonably can. -- orthogonal 10:00, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- It is not "POV hijacking" any more than having an article titled "Moon" be about one particular planet's natural satellite, or an article titled "evolution" be about only biological evolution, are "POV hijacking." All are simply instances of article titles corresponding to the most frequent usage of a term, as suggested in Wikipedia:naming conventions, which states,
- "Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature."
- Besides, there is (now) a separate article, deity, for the common noun.--Johnstone 23:02, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hey, Johnstone, wherefore didst thou removest the Pope Quote from the Evolution page? I thought it was good there - not many people know the Pope said that. Also considering all the hard work you put in to make it perfect, don't you think it ought to stay? :P Graft 17:30, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I moved the quote to evolutionary creationism, because I tended to agree with the suggestion by user:duncharris that it was a little bit out of place in the evolution article. Not that it wasn't on topic, just that it fits better in the other article, as it currently stands. However, an entire article devoted to "Evolution and religion" might be more appropriate still.--Johnstone 23:15, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Christmas
Thanks for moving all that wild stuff from the end. The article was otherwise near-ready for "feature" status. Sfahey 23:04, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- You're welcome.--Johnstone 22:52, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Stem cell
Thanks for the concise intro (and clarifications) to the stem cells article ;) --Nectarflowed 09:24, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- You're welcome.--Johnstone 00:47, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Image:Spacetime curvature.png
Hi, I just wanted to let you know I added an {{unverified}} tag to that image. You may want to update it with information on its source and copyright status. ^_~ -- Schneelocke (cheeks clone) [[]] 12:49, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Done.--Johnstone 01:53, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-ByS A-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new)| talk)
- I'm looking into it, but it's an unfamiliar subject to me, and it will take some time to be able to make an informed decision.--Johnstone 13:48, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Existence of God merger
I'm attempting to develop a consensus in favor of merging the Arguments against the existence of God and the Arguments for the existence of God articles. A beta version of the resulting article is available at Existence of God. To date, there seems to be consensus in favor of this merger on the "for" talk page, I'm now trying to get a consensus together on the "against" talk page. Please visit Talk:Arguments against the existence of God to weigh in. I'm copy-and-pasting this message to everybody who has contributed to that talk page. crazyeddie 05:45, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)